electriceye
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Their last album was the final straw for me. It was appallingly bad. Like a Cirque du Soleil rejected soundtrack. If you want a great prog band, check out Teramaze instead.
Dream Theater
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p0ke
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wankerness
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What about like, the notes?
LiveOVErdrive
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I like it surprisingly a lot. Gives me a the vibe of octavarium mixed with train of thought.
I don't know that I'll be able to really get into their music again until they bring portnoy back, but that has less to do with the music than it does wanting my heroes back together again. Their self titled album was fantastic even without him and while I don't much care for the astonishing as a whole, I still respect them for trying it.
But then I listen to Awake and SFAM and I'm like "oh... Right"
I don't know that I'll be able to really get into their music again until they bring portnoy back, but that has less to do with the music than it does wanting my heroes back together again. Their self titled album was fantastic even without him and while I don't much care for the astonishing as a whole, I still respect them for trying it.
But then I listen to Awake and SFAM and I'm like "oh... Right"
Even in that short clip, you can still hear how the drums are mirroring the riff rather than playing off it.
Drum sound still annoying.
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BenjaminW
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I'm fuckin hyped for this new album.
Razerjack
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Doesn't look/sound too promising or inspiring. Along with the fact that their next tour will be another '20th anniversary of classic album' tour, there are signs that DT is losing their creative drive and is instead banking on past success, which is okay if you're Def Leppard, but as an icon of 'progressive' metal it's painful to watch. Loved the self-titled album though.
LiveOVErdrive
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I sort of get that vibe too. That said I would LOVE the chance to see the entirety of SFAM live.
Captain Butterscotch
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Judging a Dream Theater song from a 30 second clip seems silly.
p0ke
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Yeah, can't really say much about it after such a short clip, other than that they definitely have my attention at this point.
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This is the internet critic crew... it could have just been a track list and they would have critiqued the band based off of it and we would have gotten at least one post about Portnoy
musicman61554
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I think the clip sounds great. Mix is sounding awesome too.
Exchanger
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I kinda like it but it's a bit short to do any pronostics about the whole album's writing.
I'm gonna disagree with the mix though, it's not bad, but it's still this weird sound they had from DT13 on.
I'm gonna disagree with the mix though, it's not bad, but it's still this weird sound they had from DT13 on.
A-Branger
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but the question everyone is asking here
would JP 8 string?...... and would he djent?
and yeah I know they would never do fully dj0nt!! d-d-d-d-d-0nt!....... but I bet they would incorporate one riff at one point, closing the full circle of prog metal... and it would be awesome and you know it
would JP 8 string?...... and would he djent?
and yeah I know they would never do fully dj0nt!! d-d-d-d-d-0nt!....... but I bet they would incorporate one riff at one point, closing the full circle of prog metal... and it would be awesome and you know it
LiveOVErdrive
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Would love to hear him do his own take on some of the cleanish dj0nting tosin abasi uses.
p0ke
7-string guitard
Yep. I don't even really care for djent or 8-strings (although I'm sort of gassing for one
) but JP doing it? It'd be awesome for sure. LiveOVErdrive
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Imagine djenty riffs mixed with buttery leads.
scrub
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Petrucci "this is the best sounding DT album we've ever made". Blabbermouth article.
Xiphos68
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Apparently he said in the past three to four years that he had been developing a EB MusicMan 8 string, though there have been no posts or anything regarding it in quite a while, sadly.
Then again, he was developing the Majesty forever too. Though I don't particularly care for it.
Anyway, new album is sounding sick, I am hoping they finally let Mangini contribute some writings. Glad the mix is finally fixed, because it has sucked for the past few albums with the exception of "The Astonishing," but as an album, that one is lacking massively.
